Word: second-hand
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...What’s more troubling, however, is that few people seem to mind this rampant smoking. Despite the abundance of evidence documenting the ill effects of second-hand smoke, many people apparently still underestimate its danger. Recent surveys have shown that two-thirds of Chinese people think that smoking does “little to no harm,” while 60 percent do not know that smoking causes lung cancer, and 96 percent are not aware of the connection between smoking and heart disease...
...Enacting a nationwide smoking ban in all public places is a sound policy that would benefit all countries, not just China. In the U.S., where only about 20 percent of adults smoke, the problem of second-hand smoke exposure is perhaps not as readily apparent as it is in China. Nevertheless, more states should follow the example set by California and New York and countries like France and England, where smoking is banned in most, if not all, public places. In addition to improving public health in that specific area, these bans raise awareness to the serious and often underestimated...
...stuff that I’ve been working on is my thesis,” says Camacho. “Basically, what I did is to take objects associated with domestic comfort and take them apart, recreating and re-inscribing them.” To accomplish this, Camacho bought second-hand chairs from the Salvation Army and embroidered excerpts from stories about the supernatural onto their undersides. He subsequently donated the chairs back to the Salvation Army so they could be put back in circulation. When questioned about the project’s message, he was reluctant to answer directly...
...Back then, the Cho family, struggled to eke out an existence on a small income from a second-hand bookshop and rented a bleak, two-room basement apartment in a Seoul neighborhood. Relatives already living in the U.S. invited the Chos to emigrate in 1984, but it took eight long years to obtain proper visas...
...having developed the habit, the smokers' percentage of the population is set to rise again, and with it the number of deaths. That's why the new law doesn't aim only to restrict smokers' opportunities to light up; it also seeks to protect those subjected to second-hand smoke, which is responsible for nearly 10% of France's 66,000 annual tobacco-related deaths...